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Burning Ground

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Released
  
March 4, 1997

Length
  
5:38

Writer(s)
  
Van Morrison

Genre
  
Folk rock

Label
  
Mercury

Composer(s)
  
Van Morrison

"Burning Ground" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1997 album, The Healing Game. For this song, Morrison got his inspiration from a common scene from his childhood when jute was shipped to Belfast from India in the 1950s.

Clinton Heylin calls the song "a potentially important song about a man still caught half-way between heaven and hell."

Personnel on original release

  • Van Morrison - vocals, harmonica
  • Ronnie Johnson - electric guitar
  • Alec Dankworth - double bass
  • Leo Green - tenor saxophone
  • Geoff Dunn - drums
  • Pee Wee Ellis - baritone saxophone, backing vocals
  • Robin Aspland - piano
  • Brian Kennedy - backing vocals
  • Katie Kissoon - backing vocals
  • Horns arranged by - Pee Wee Ellis and Leo Green
  • References

    Burning Ground Wikipedia